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The Rise, Fall and Resurrection of Gustav Stickley

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Restrained Design for Hospitality from Landini

17 Artists in Residence, from Giverny to Casa Azul

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  • From Austin, a Virtual Modern Architecture Tour

    The state of Texas may be opening back up on March 10, but Austin's 13th annual Modern Architecture + Design Tour this weekend will be a virtual affair. Eight homes – four on Saturday...
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  • Artisanal Bath Interiors from Room & Board

    A new bath collection from Room & Board runs the design gamut from traditional to transitional to minimal. Founded in 1980, the home furnishings company was something of a visionary...
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  • A Practically Perfect Renewal from Bella Notte

    Some luxury brands burn or trash seconds and samples, but Bella Notte’s found new use for theirs. It’s a collection called Renewal – a commitment to sustainability, designed...
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  • In the Hollywood Hills, a Home by Mutuus Studio

    Kristen Becker leads a charmed life. A $25,000 renovation for a Manhattan apartment launched her architecture career – then led to a penthouse design – and later, to a return...
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  • In 'Working Title', Tom Kundig's Artistic Eye

    Tom Kundig’s newest book – his fourth – is split 50/50 between small and large projects. For good reason. “There’s a pretty clear narrative out of the office and my career...
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  • High-End FORM Kitchens, No Showroom Markup

    Danny Soos’s epiphany arrived in one of London’s high-end kitchen showrooms. The products offered simply did not match his vision. “I did my first flat in London with the old mindset...
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  • The Rise, Fall and Resurrection of Gustav Stickley

    A new film from First Run Features celebrates the life and work of one of America’s first self-made men of the early 20th century. “Gustav Stickley: American Craftsman” opens...
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  • In New York City, Adolf Loos in Three Parts

    The Czech Center in New York has put together a three-part program on Adolf Loos’s rarely seen (and previously unseen) interiors in Pilsen, Czech Republic. It’s ongoing now, and open...
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  • Restrained Design for Hospitality from Landini

    Australia-based Landini Associates was founded in 1993, with work that melds strategy, architecture, interior, graphic, product, furniture and digital design. Its clients span all sectors...
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  • 17 Artists in Residence, from Giverny to Casa Azul

    Sometimes, serendipity spurs events that clearly were meant to happen. For example: A 2017 encounter between two artists in residence at Ragdale Foundation in Lake Forest, Il. has led to a book...
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  • On the Upper West Side, a Design Inspired by Art

    A 1987 painting by Robert Overby ignited the imaginations of Jessica Shaw and the client who showed it to her. It’s called “Computer Whiz” and it hangs in TriBeca's Andrew...
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  • Fund the 'Notebooks & Drawings of Louis Kahn'

    A Kickstarter campaign for the reissue of Richard Saul Wurman's "The Notebooks and Drawings of Louis I. Kahn" will launch tomorrow, Wednesday, February 17, at 8:00 AM Eastern. Updated...
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  • For President's Day, an Exhibition on Jefferson

    Today, we thought it appropriate to take a look back at a post about our third president - the only amateur architect among the entire 46. Like the rest of us, Thomas Jefferson was a complex...
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  • From Monacelli Press, 'Stanford White in Detail'

    After publishing three books on masterworks by his great-grandfather, Samuel G. White is zeroing in on the finer points of his work. “Stanford White in Detail” focuses on ornament...
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  • New Life for Austin's Commodore Perry Estate

    In the end the 1920s-era home in Austin, designed by architect Henry Bowers Thomson for clients Edgar and Lutie Perry, was too much. When Edgar Perry sold the 10-acre estate and its 10,600-square-foot...
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  • In Charlotte, a Competition for Black Architects

    On a site where Black factory workers once manned a Ford assembly line in Charlotte, four young African American architecture students soon will see their designs come to life. Their...
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  • In North Carolina, 'Triangle Modern Architecture'

    It took five years but it felt like 25, says architect, planner, and author Victoria Ballard Bell. That’s because her new book – “Triangle Modern Architecture” – is about...
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  • Wayne Thom: Photographing the Late Modern

    Photographer Wayne Thom arrived in Southern California too late for the midcentury modernists. He was too early for the history-bending postmodernists. But he was just in time for the late...
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  • In DUMBO, 98 Front Street by ODA Architects

    For New York’s ODA Architects, practice really does make perfect. Seven years ago the firm was challenged by a developer to design an apartment building in Queens – on a budget,...
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  • Los Angeles Today: Photos by Tim Street-Porter

    A native of Great Britain, Tim Street-Porter studied architecture there before arriving in Los Angeles four decades ago – along with his wife, writer and designer Annie Kelly. He...
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  • Roto Breathes Real-World Fun into Public Spaces

    In a virtual era dominated by Zoom, Twitter, and TikTok, a design firm called Roto is breathing real-world fun into public spaces. Since 2004, they’ve been creating unique experiences...
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  • Studio Gang Designs a New Museum in Little Rock

    It’s not enough that Arkansas is home to Fay Jones’ Thorncrown Chapel in Eureka Springs. Or that 2020 AIA Gold Medal winner Marlon Blackwell is teaching and practicing in Fayetteville. No....
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  • From New Ravenna, the Ready-to-Ship Studio Line

    What the world needs during a time of pandemic is instant gratification – and maybe a touch of Morocco to boot. That’s the way Cean Irminger, creative director at New Ravenna,...
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  • 'Living in the Mountains,' from Phaidon

    Designing for life in the mountains means a marriage between beauty and danger. That’s the thesis of a new book from Phaidon Press called “Living in the Mountains.” It features...
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  • Pillow Pops: A Woman's Revolution in Home Decor

    Before she founded Pillow Pops, Shani Moran was designing wholesale fabrics for fashion houses – and soaking up all she could about the industry. Then she spent two years designing...
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  • A Tour of Venice during Times of the Plague

    Last Saturday, I had took a virtual tour of Venice during its time of the Bubonic Plague in the 14th and 17th centuries. It was guided by Luisella Romeo. who’s a native of Venice,...
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  • Washington's Union Station, by Daniel Burnham

    Alas, Amtrak Joe’s arrival yesterday at the nation’s capital was not by his favored mode of travel: a train slipping into Daniel Burnham’s exquisite Union Station. Instead,...
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  • In D.C., Clemence's Photos of the MLK Library

    Photographer Paul Clemence’s sense of timing is pretty much impeccable. In Washington, D.C. recently, he spent hours shooting one of Mies van der Rohe’s final projects. The...
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  • In Dallas, a Lab and a Barn by Marlon Blackwell

    Two new projects for Lamplighter School in Dallas by Marlon Blackwell Architects illuminate why the firm won the 2020 AIA Gold Medal. Lamplighter is a progressive, pre-K-through-fourth-grade...
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  • Rethinking Synagogues for the 21st Century

    Religious architecture, often the most inspiring on the planet – think of the Pantheon and the Hagia Sofia – is sometimes the most budget-challenged too. But a New York firm...
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  • In Portola Valley, Richard Beard's Westridge House

    A drainage swale, tumbling down a one-acre site overlooking Windy Hill in Northern California's Portola County, drove the placement of the Westridge Residence. It was sited and designed...
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  • In Seattle, a Flagship Lounge for Alaska Airlines

    An assignment to redesign lighting aboard Alaska Airlines' fleet of 737s turned into something bigger for Seattle’s Graham Baba Architects: Like the airline’s new flagship lounge...
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  • In Chicago, How to Forge an Alliance with an Alley

    Most people looking to build in Edgewater on the north side of Chicago would pass on a standard lot measuring 25 by 125 feet, an alley aligned to its longest side. But not architects...
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  • Taline and Poppy from Bella Notte Linens

    Muted colors from Northern California and Morocco have inspired two new collections from Bella Notte Linens. The new designs are the work of Leeta Steenwyk, design director at the San Francisco-based...
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  • "HOUSES' by Robert A.M. Stern Architects

    Today, Ocean Home magazine online is running my review of a new book from Monacelli Press, on 17 recent residential projects from four partners at Robert A.M. Stern Architects. It's...
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  • Americans in Spain: Painting and Travel, 1820-1920

    American artists of the 19th and 20th centuries who wanted to study lighting and flourishes by Spanish Old Masters set out for one destination: The Prado Museum in Madrid. “It...
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  • Raggin' On at the Columbus Museum of Art

    When African American folk artist Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson died in May 2015, she left her house and all its contents to the Columbus Museum of Art in Ohio. Little did the museum...
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  • At Biltmore, a Home for Napoleon's Chess Set

    Now that "The Queen's Gambit" on Netflix has sent chess set sales soaring into the stratosphere, it's time to take a look back at an early post on A+A. It featured one of the world's...
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  • In Hawaii, Restoring a Jack Nicklaus Course

    So what do you do when a pandemic shuts down your five-star resort hotel on Hawaii’s Big Island? If you’re the Four Seasons Hualalai, you upgrade your plans for renovating your...
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  • Expanding the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

    A holiday gift arrived early for the team that won a competition to expand and enhance the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland. Last week, the hall announced that Practice for Architecture...
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  • In the Turks & Caicos, a Home at The Strand

    Three hours by air from New York City, the Turks & Caicos is the hottest destination in the Caribbean today. Up until now, it’s been dominated by hotels and condos, not high-end...
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  • Experiential Environments from Roto

    In a virtual era dominated by Zoom, Twitter, and TikTok, a design firm called Roto is breathing real-world fun into public spaces. Since 2004, they’ve been creating unique...
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  • High-End Luxury in Mexico's Punta de Mita

    Susurros del Corazón is a residential development that overlooks Mexico’s Bay of Banderas, between Puerto Vallarta and the surfer town of Sayulita. There, at Punta de Mita, developer...
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  • Leading Carolina's Black Design Community

    A sidebar to today’s architecture column in The News & Observer in Raleigh focuses on the Black woman who is the undisputed leader in the North Carolina Triangle’s African American...
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  • Carolina's New Generation of Black Designers

    For the past six months or so, I've been researching and interviewing a number of African American architects in the Triangle area of North Carolina, for my architecture column in the News...
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  • Bridging the Void between Old and New

    Francoise Astorg Bollack is a study in the power of duality. Raised in Montmartre, she graduated from the École Spéciale d'Architecture in Paris in 1969 – and immediately headed...
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  • Venetian Stories, Recipes, and Secret Gardens

    Iris Loredana publishes a blog called La Venessian that’s all about stories and recipes from Venice and its secret gardens. She’s well-suited for it, with degrees from both the University...
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  • Architecture in Service to Kids and Music

    Hamilton, Ontario may be a blue-collar steel town – but like Toronto, its neighbor 60 miles north – it’s a music town too. That’s according to Bill Curran, principal in Thier...
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  • In California, Clayton Korte's Vineyard Shed

    Here we have a beautiful, if undecorated, shed. It’s a barn situated on a vineyard located between Santa Barbara and San Francisco, one that belongs to Justin Smith, owner and winemaker...
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  • A Tour of Amherst College with Blair Kamin

    Chicago Tribune columnist Blair Kamin credits an art history course at Amherst College for turning his head toward architecture criticism. The 1979 graduate took a course in Gothic...
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From Austin, a Virtual Modern Architecture Tour

The state of Texas may be opening back up on March 10, but Austin's 13th annual Modern Architecture + Design...

March 5, 2021
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Artisanal Bath Interiors from Room & Board

A new bath collection from Room & Board runs the design gamut from traditional to transitional to minimal. Founded...

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A Practically Perfect Renewal from Bella Notte

Some luxury brands burn or trash seconds and samples, but Bella Notte’s found new use for theirs. It’s...

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In the Hollywood Hills, a Home by Mutuus Studio

Kristen Becker leads a charmed life. A $25,000 renovation for a Manhattan apartment launched her architecture...

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In ‘Working Title’, Tom Kundig’s Artistic Eye

Tom Kundig’s newest book – his fourth – is split 50/50 between small and large projects. For...

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High-End FORM Kitchens, No Showroom Markup

Danny Soos’s epiphany arrived in one of London’s high-end kitchen showrooms. The products offered...

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The Rise, Fall and Resurrection of Gustav Stickley

A new film from First Run Features celebrates the life and work of one of America’s first self-made...

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In New York City, Adolf Loos in Three Parts

The Czech Center in New York has put together a three-part program on Adolf Loos’s rarely seen (and...

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Restrained Design for Hospitality from Landini

Australia-based Landini Associates was founded in 1993, with work that melds strategy, architecture,...

February 19, 2021
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17 Artists in Residence, from Giverny to Casa Azul

Sometimes, serendipity spurs events that clearly were meant to happen. For example: A 2017 encounter...

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